Barney Kessel 1-20-89 Elario's San Diego with Bob Magnusson, more

The late jazz guitarist Barney Kessel performing at Elario's in San Diego in a TV broadcast from 1-20-89, with Bob Magnusson (bass), Herb Ellis (guitar), and Sherman Ferguson (drums). Kessel made his 1940s stage debut as a white teenager traveling with otherwise all-black swing bands and his many awards as a jazz guitarist. Though mostly known for jazz, he also played on tracks by Phil Spector, the Monkees, Julie London, Elvis Presley (“Return to Sender”), and the Righteous Brothers (“You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”). He can also be heard on Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations.”

Gibson guitars made a Barney Kessel model from 1961 to 1973. Pete Townshend of the Who wrote a song about the guitarist in 1975, “To Barney Kessel,” which eventually appeared on the Scoop album of demos and outtakes. After moving to San Diego's University Heights in 1989, Kessel was sidelined by a stroke in 1992. He died from a brain tumor at his home on May 6, 2004, with his death reported on ABC News, in the New York Times, and elsewhere.

Ten years after his death, Kay guitars was actively reissuing classic Kessel guitars. In 2016, a previously unreleased concert album was issued via Sundazed Records, Live at the Jazz Mill, featuring a newly discovered 1954 performance. Sundazed also reissued a Claudia Thompson disc with Kessell as sole accompanist, Goodbye to Love.

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads.

In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.

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